Issue 18370 - SpellChecker Stops Working When Default Language Changes
Summary: SpellChecker Stops Working When Default Language Changes
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 16940
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1 RC3
Hardware: PC Windows 2000
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: h.ilter
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Keywords: oooqa
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Reported: 2003-08-18 21:16 UTC by Unknown
Modified: 2003-09-08 16:56 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description Unknown 2003-08-18 21:16:10 UTC 
When one changes the default language in Options/Language Settings/Languages; in
my case : Language of : Locale Setting = English (Australia), Default Currency =
AUD, Default Languages for Documents : Western = English (Australia), Spellcheck
features stop working.  Neither Check nor AutoSpellCheck work.  Check will start
at the top of the document and go to the end and not find any errors. 
AutoSpellCheck will not underline any possible spelling errors in red.  I was
using 1.0.3 and upgraded, but both versions (1.1 r3) have the same problem.
Comment 1 khendricks 2003-08-19 00:47:20 UTC 
Hi, 
 
Every piece of text has a locale/language attribute attached to it. 
So what language/locale setting does the text have?   
 
If you highlight a word on the document and go to Format->Character->Font and look 
at the language pulldown what does it say? 
 
Do you have the proper dictionary for that language installed? 
 
If not, it will do exactly what you report correctly (not a bug).  
 
Kevin
Comment 2 Unknown 2003-08-19 03:19:08 UTC 
> If you highlight a word on the document and go to 
> Format->Character->Font
> and look at the language pulldown what does it say?
 
It says English (Australia)
 
> Do you have the proper dictionary for that language installed?
 
 \share\wordbook\English has soffice.dic sun.dic
 \share\wordbook is empty
 \share\dict\ooo has en_US and en_BR
 \share\dict\ is empty
 
> If not, it will do exactly what you report correctly (not a bug).
 
In this case I would suggest there is a UAT failure, as it does not
tell you your choice of dictionary is not installed.  There is no UI
message to inform you otherwise, yet if go back to these other
dictionaries these features activate.  This leaves the average user in
limbo.

I also feel it would be advantageous for the installer to check the
settings on the operating systems environment to get the default
language of choice and currency.
Comment 3 tamblyne 2003-08-19 04:33:33 UTC 
Please see duplicate Issue 16940

Actually, there is an error message when spellcheck is initiated that
the language is not supported and the proper dictionary is not
installed.  (Just confirmed this w/1.1rc3.)  





*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 16940 ***
Comment 4 tamblyne 2003-08-19 04:36:43 UTC 
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